Duty To Warn: The Case Every Therapist Learns About
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Therapy is supposed to be a safe space. You talk, they listen, and everything stays in the room. But what happens when someone crosses the line from intrusive thoughts to actual plans to hurt someone?
In this episode of 10 Minute Murder, we’re digging into the 1969 case that forced the legal system to decide when privacy ends and public safety begins. Tatiana Tarasoff had no idea she was in danger. Her killer had told his therapist exactly what he was planning. The therapist told the police. And still, nothing was done.
This isn’t just a case about one tragedy. It’s the reason therapists in the U.S. now have a legal duty to warn. Because Tatiana’s death made it painfully clear what happens when no one does.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a reason therapists aren't supposed to tell anyone what you say in their office. |
| 0:05.9 | Unless, of course, you say something that makes them think you're about to kill someone. |
| 0:10.1 | Then it gets a little murky. |
| 0:11.9 | In today's episode, we're heading back to the late 60s, California, where one therapist did speak up, |
| 0:18.5 | called the cops, followed the protocol, and still none of it mattered. |
| 0:22.6 | What followed led to a legal firestorm, a lot of finger pointing, and one of the most important mental health rulings in U.S. history. |
| 0:31.6 | But before we dive in, if you like your true crime brief and bingeable you're in the right place hit follow now for |
| 0:38.7 | at least two new episodes every week this is 10-minute murder let's get into it At some point, a lot of us end up sitting across from a therapist. |
| 1:02.4 | Usually it's to unpack something heavy from our past. |
| 1:05.9 | Trauma, abuse, neglect, take your pick. |
| 1:08.6 | We talk, they listen, maybe nod at just the right time to make us feel |
| 1:12.8 | heard. Then they offer something helpful, a little clarity, maybe a plan. There's a kind of unspoken |
| 1:19.7 | agreement built into that setup. What's said in the room, stays in the room. You open up piece |
| 1:26.1 | by piece because you trust it's not going anywhere you |
| 1:29.2 | didn't send it. But mental health isn't a one-size-fits-all. Some people catch the flu and |
| 1:35.0 | barely notice it. For others, it's deadly. Mental illness works the same way. What helps one person |
| 1:41.8 | might do nothing for someone else. And when it spirals, it doesn't always |
| 1:46.2 | just affect the person experiencing it. Unlike physical illness, we don't usually think about |
| 1:52.4 | mental health issues as something that could affect the people around them. There's no contagious |
| 1:57.3 | element. You can sit next to someone with depression, and you're not going to walk away with it. |
| 2:02.8 | That's part of the disconnect. The other part is so much of it happens quietly, internally. You don't |
| 2:08.9 | always see it unless you're trained to look or unless the person opens up in therapy. |
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